You know, I have gone a little ape-shit over this Bill - the National Defense Authorization Act – because it is basically the last nail in the coffin of the Constitution. My Facebook friends aren’t talking to me anymore – those are my actual friends supposedly. In truth, I am too late and I also have no idea what to actually do in the face of it besides tell everyone about it.
I am looking at this carefully because it has come up before. Before – back in 2001 when I saw, first, the rigged election of George W Bush, followed by 911 attack on the World Trade Center -
I knew 911 was a usa action to get the country united behind George W Bush so we would forget the rigged election and the dangling chads, and send us off to war in Iraq. I knew they don’t care about 4000 American lives in the twin towers. My friend, David Weis died on the 106th floor because he worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. They didn’t care – because they don’t care. They are Alien Human Hybrids. Read Nothing In This Book Is True But It’s Exactly The Way Things Are.
I saw the “War on Terror” as a way to create fear in people – seperate us and then the creation of the Patriot Act as the beginning of the end of our rights as citizens, although arguably, that started at the end of WWII. I was amazed at how people bought the story – and it fragmented the country into people who actually believe in Terrorism and this crazy story about clandestine Muslim groups. Actually, I understand now why people bought that story. If I did not believe in God, I would have bought the story too – otherwise – there would be no way to handle the truth. This is the first indication that there is a 3rd Way out of the mess we are in. If everyone believed in God – a God of their own understanding- and relied on God – none of this would be happening because we could stomach the Truth.
I wondered if Osama Bin Laden exists and marveled at the coincidence of Obama Osama Baden Bin Laden – if the names were just a Universal joke or planned by the CIA. Funny again it’s 3 names like Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman…
When I watched the Twin Towers fall and watched the remaining buildings fall later, and the way they fell and how the Pentagon was unprotected, it was ridiculous – it was obvious – and I knew our government did it. To add insult to injury, I had seen the Pilot of Chris Carter’s Lone Gunmen Episode from March 20o1 in which the government was to shoot down a commercial airline flight flying into the World Trade Center – and the Lone Gunmen saved the day – just 6 months earlier.
I watched my family polarized because they refused to believe that our government was behind it so they had to believe this silly fairy tale they told us.
I watched the whole thing knowing what was coming down the road… and I did nothing because I did not know what to do. I experienced total powerlessness – and got no information from my Intuition…
Next they created the Patriot Act and I just shook my head and did nothing because I did not know what to do. I remember asking my friends ”do I just go out in the street by myself???”
At that point I read They Thought They Were Free by Milton Meyer about the German’s in pre-Nazi Germany,
“And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying “Jew swine” collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in your nation, your people is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”
I completely could feel their pain - but I still did not know what to do. I hoped that a lot of people would realize and that a lot of people would do something together. I hoped I could be a part of that.
Little things happened – one day I walked into Key Bank and there was a sign that stated “Please remove your hat, glasses and scarf.” I knew what to do that day – I told them what I thought of that and closed my account.
We had the Obama Democratic Convention and 5000 new cameras were installed downtown. I marveled at how they got over on us. They bussed the homeless people to warehouses for the convention so they would be out of sight from the TV camera’s wandering eye.
I knew what to do back then - I went for target practice at the shooting range, feeling like I should get in practice and maybe exercise my right to bear arms. I asked God if I should buy a gun, and it became abundantly clear that I am too much of a hot-head to own a gun – No. I know how to shoot one, but I need to rely on God.
When the election happened, I knew what to do then - I became a Republican to get Ron Paul on the ballot.
That was an experience – going to the Republican Caucus. This 80 year old lady was running the meeting and no one would help her. I got off my Radical Liberal ass and helped her -
He did not get on the ballot, and I voted, not for the lesser of 2 of evils. I knew what to do that day – I voted my principles. But still nothing in the large scale happened, and I went on…
In late August 2011, I threw my hands in the air over being homeless and this economy and begged God for an answer…a few days later I found out about worker cooperatives, and began to organize one via an ad on Craigslist…. September 12, 2011, we had our first meeting – I knew what to do when I got that information-Organize!. 5 days later on Constitution Day, a group of people occupied Wall St. Suddenly, I felt that things were going to change. The kids were in the streets and I was developing a solution for Denver. And on we went for a while…it was exciting and wonderful to watch them organize in Zucotti Park while I organized in Denver. I knew what to do then – stay in Denver and organize, although I really wanted to go to NY.
And along came December 1, and the National Defense Authorization Act. My friend Bruce emailed me a call to action – and I could not believe my eyes. I posted it on Facebook and we all exclaimed. We talked, we ranted, we raved… and then, a day later, we stopped talking – the media didn’t cover it – Occupy Los Angeles repudiated the NDAA and demanded that the Attorney General state his stand on December 3rd, and the government said nothing… and we dropped it.
I didn’t drop it – I kept posting – and recently I talked to a friend of mine who referred to my “political-rantings on facebook”. Nice! I don’t care. I do know, that if the whole thing goes to hell, I need to know that I did what needed to do, even if people get mad at me or drop me as their friends.
Today, I hear that the House signed the bill and now Obama is to sign it tomorrow, December 9…
Only 6 days later and it is already being joked about on the Daily Show – but it is still happening - and I still don’t know what to do…
I know what not to do – I know that I am not supposed to go to Washington DC and camp out on the lawn of the White House. I know that I am supposed to stay here and keep working on the Worker Cooperative.
So, I have to look at myself and look also at what Milton Meyer says in his book – what has prevented me from taking action? I did not know a constructive thing to do besides what I did, to bring about a solution, so I did nothing or only what I was directed to do, and the future looks bleak.
What I see in myself is cultural apathy and a sense of entitlement. I have seen this before in other people – I have seen it in people who have taken advantage of the things I have fought hard for – and to them it is nothing because they did not have to fight for it – and here we are – about to lose our freedom and I find myself thinking – “we can’t lose our freedom – it just is not possible.”
But wait a minute – in every other country in this world, people are suppressed and killed and raped and imprisoned and starved and silenced, just not here that we are paying attention to – but easily it could be here too and it has been here – When we got here we killed off the entire Native population. Then we brought slaves here from Africa. Then during WWII, 7000 Japanese Americans were held here in internment camps. During Katrina people were taken to FEMA camps. We have been doing it all along – I just have never experienced it. There are internment concentration camps in the US right now. FEMA Camps – google it.
So, why not? Why is it not possible? Well, I guess it is possible – anything is possible… and I still don’t know what to do.
So, entre the 3rd Way – here I have to trust God. I have to remember my position in life is that I turned my will and my life over to the care of God as I understand God – and so God has a plan. Did God have a plan for all these other horrible situations that have happened in the world? Maybe so, and I just don’t know it.
Honestly, before this day, I had not really thought about it. I had some beliefs up till this day, that I realize now are false – I believed that as long as I am doing good work for God that nothing bad could happen to me. I forgot about Matthew 5:45″That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” So, what does that mean?
In my belief system, it means that I chose a while back to believe that God is everything or else He is nothing – so even losing my American freedom might be God’s will. Nothing can take a way my Union with God. So my Freedom can never be taken away.
Even dying a miserable painful death might be God’s will. After all, Jesus died on the cross. And what does that mean in this context?
To me, it means that this place – planet earth, this life – is not about what TVAmerica wants to tell us it is about. It is, instead about, relationships we have with our fellow man and other living creatures here. It is about spiritual warfare – however small or grand that may seem from time to time.
That may sound like mumbojumbo but it is about that – in the face of pure evil, my job is to pray. In the face of pure confusion, my job is to pray and wait for clarity.In the face of pure hatred, my job is to love. I am to love people through God and nothing more. And I am to wait for my instructions. And when I get the instructions, I am to carry them out, asking only for the Power to do so. This is the 3rd Way.
Today I live in a house with a roof and have a refrigerator full of food. Tomorrow I might live in a tent and shoot my food. The next day I might live in an internment camp and be served food – and whatever way – it is all about relationships and my relationship with God which no circumstance can take from me, and often, which painful circumstances serve to strengthen.
It is 2011 – prophesied by many as the Apocalypse. Wikipedia “An Apocalypse(Greek: ἀποκάλυψις apokálypsis; “lifting of the veil” or “revelation”) is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted. The Apocalypse of John(Greek Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου) is the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament. By extension, apocalypse can refer to any End Time scenario, or to the end of the world in general.”
Why am I surprised that this is happening? Instead, I could be joyous! I could be grateful – because we have lived under a veil of lies for so long, at least now the truth will be reveiled. And I do know what to do- Trust God, clean house, help others.
